Backwoods Lake Trout Report #2

[4x4bassin]

Went on our annual August quad trip to Lake X a couple weeks ago with a couple friends and as always it was a blast . The night before we left I spread all the important stuff

on the garage floor just to make sure I was not forgetting anything, nothing worse than working your tail off to get to lake X and discovering that you forgot your favorite/go too

lure at home. I'm sure we have all been there before.

 

 

 

A couple pictures at the trail head after the bikes are "loaded" up and a pic of the gang along a good part of the trail

 

 

 

 

This time of the year we find the lake trout fairly deep (50-70ft) so the jigs are tied on , finders are juiced up and away we go . First drift through the bay we started to nail them .This one was caught on the first drop of the jig .

 

 

The afternoon went on and the fishing was great with us boating around 15 lake trout and a couple smallies. The next morning the lake trout were off a bit but the smallmouth were

on fire just off a point in about 20ft of water in front of an old hunt camp , This was one of the biggest I caught that morning.

 

 

That night we had a lake trout shore lunch at camp , here is a pic. of my friend cleaning them up at camp.

 

 

The next day started well with a couple nice lake trout but the lake trout bite tailed off quick and we resorted to the smallmouth .

 

 

When we were fishing for the smallies up on the point we discovered that the lake trout were there as well in 15-25ft of water and surprisingly hitting our crayfish jigs . We caught around 10 lake trout this way , pretty crazy if you ask me . This was the bait/baits I was catching the lakers on that morning

 

 

 

It was a great trip and I can't wait for the next one in September , hope you enjoyed !

 

 

[Rod Caster]

That looks like a really fun trip. I'd love to do a four wheeling backlake trip... never did one before.

 

Good tip/pattern for the shallower lakers. Everything eats crayfish I guess.

[fishindevil]

Some very nice trout you guys got !!!!! Great pics too looks like a cool spot to go camp and get some shore lunch !!! Nice smallie as well !!!!! Cheers

[TroutnMuskieHunter]

Looks like a great spot to relax and have some good times with the boys!...nice Lakers.

[BillM]

Nice man! Don't lay love when those crayfish come up missing both claws? LOL!!!

[Sinker]

Good stuff! Those are some nice trout! I've caught them on crayfish patterns before too. Pretty neat, eh?

 

S.

[Joeytier]

Good stuff as always. You've got the vertical jigging game figured out big time for the big lakers.

[wormdunker]

Nice lakers & always fun to get the smallies too!

[Moosebunk]

4X4'in and gettin' 'er done in the back bush. Can't complain one little bit about those great smallie and laker results. Good fishing.

[solopaddler]

Nice report, and definitely a unique way to catch those lakers!

[4x4bassin]

Thanks for the comments guys , it sure was strange catching smallmouth and lake trout in 20 ft of water on the same small point and the same crawfish jig in the middle of August . I guess

you just never know ! I am going back to the same lake in September and I will be going back to that point with a crawfish jig tied on for sure